In the early 1960s Jean Nidetch got together with some friends to help each other lose weight. It was a great idea and it caught on. Today there are Weight Watchers groups meeting all over the world.
Many of the people who join WW today remember their mothers or grandmothers with their postage scale on the kitchen counter weighing and measuring. Many remember those same moms and grandmas coming home from a meeting thrilled with the victory of losing a pound or grimly determined to do better next week.
There were other less specific changes that those early pioneers experienced. They began to learn about nutrition. They learned that losing weight involved more than just cutting calories. They realized that in order to feel good they had to get the nutrients they needed even if their portion sizes were smaller.
Those early WW families watched as Mom learned to cook without putting canned cream of mushroom soup in every casserole. They observed her trying new fruits and vegetables and spices. As Mom learned to make healthier choices she was teaching her family too.
In many ways the organization founded by Jean Nidetch hasn’t changed. As WW has kept up with the latest discoveries in the food and nutrition sciences the program has changed to keep up. Members have more choices and more flexibility int their meal planning than their moms and grandmas had. Now they can even buy WW convenience foods already weighed and measured.
The weekly meeting is still an essential part of the program. It’s still fun to get out and hear an entertaining and informative lecture and get together with old and new friends. But Weight Watchers now offers something grandma never could have imagined. You can actually attend your meetings online. It’s a new world and Weight Watchers keeps up with the times.
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